KNOX – Getting to the bottom of Andrew Scheer’s vestigial tail
THE DOORBELL RANG, which is never good news. Who could it be? Too early for trick or treaters. Religious zealots? Bottle drive? Oh, Lord, please don’t make me explain the [Continue]
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KNOX – In the church of May, hopes are high for a Green wave
IT WAS ALREADY standing room only in St. Paul’s United by the time Elizabeth May arrived, just in time for the all-candidates’ debate on the environment to begin. [Continue]
KNOX – Move over boomers, parties have discovered millennials
WEEK ONE in federal election promises: • Jagmeet Singh vowed to cap cellphone and Internet charges. • Justin Trudeau announced breaks for first-time homeowners. • [Continue]
KNOX – For Trudeau, it’s looking to be a bumpier ride than it was in 2015
ON THE VERY FIRST DAY of the election campaign, the media bus drove into Justin Trudeau’s plane at the Victoria airport. As metaphors go, that’s not bad. Trudeau will [Continue]
KNOX – In Dysfunction-By-The-Sea, policing isn’t a pretty picture
WHEN THAT INTOXICATED GUY staged a one-man rodeo near the Royal Jubilee on Wednesday, smashing into cars before holing up inside a Begbie Street house, VicPD brought in the [Continue]
KNOX – Even a 77-year-old must produce ID to get a beer at a festival
BILL CAMPBELL WAS STROLLING ALONG the Esquimalt Lagoon when he spotted the beer truck. Part of Colwood’s annual Eats and Beats at the Beach festival, it emerged out of the [Continue]
KNOX – Days of the peeler bars are numbered in B.C.
BY NOON TUESDAY, the guy from the bar-supply company was loading torpedo-like beer gas tanks into his van. The Fox Showroom Pub didn’t need them anymore. The last scene of [Continue]
KNOX – Our drug prices lure Americans here but how much can we spare?
WHEN TAYLOR YOUNG made his way off the Anacortes ferry and into a Sidney pharmacy the other day, he paid $300 for insulin that would have cost $2,400 back home in Norman, [Continue]
KNOX – Murray Rankin’s ‘daunting’ role as Canada’s new spy watchdog
YOU CAN JUST ABOUT hear Murray Rankin gulp over the phone from Ottawa. “Let’s be honest, it’s daunting,” the Victoria MP says of his new challenge. “But it’s so [Continue]
KNOX – Derelict house leaves a bad taste in neighbourhood
FOUR YEARS LATER, there is still no sign of life on Mars. The derelict house that caused nearby residents to rise up in one of Victoria’s more elegant protests remains [Continue]
KNOX – Beyond politics, the grim reality of police cuts
IT WOULD BE TEMPTING to dismiss the latest glumness out of the Victoria Police Department as political posturing. Tempting, but incorrect. Don’t get me wrong. VicPD [Continue]
KNOX – Taking a raincheck on the new normal – long, hot summers
“I’LL TAKE A RAINCHECK,” I told the kid at the cash register.That drew a blank stare. “A what?” Ah, I thought, her generation doesn’t write cheques. She [Continue]
KNOX – When 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British policeman
HERE’S SOMETHING they didn’t teach you in history class: the time 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British bobby while trying to bust some buddies out of jail. [Continue]
KNOX – ‘Secret Coast Expedition’ aims to amplify Spain’s role in B.C.
HOW DO YOU PLAN for a month in the wilderness? First, get your dental work done. Don’t want to end up with a dethroned crown halfway between the middle of nowhere and the [Continue]
